How, when, and why does a state take repressive action against individuals residing outside
its territorial jurisdiction? Beyond state-led domestic forms of control over citizens living …

The emerging literature dealing with transnational repression has identified several
strategies used by authoritarian states to control and coerce their populations abroad. This …

Can propaganda produced by foreign adversaries shape public opinion in a target country?
We develop a theoretical framework to understand outward-facing propaganda, which many …

ABSTRACT In the Home Stay Exhibitions young Rwandans are mentored to produce photo
stories which they exhibit in their homes, opening the doors to neighbours and friends …

Despite the rise of global technocratic ideals of city-making, cities around the world are not
merging into indistinguishable duplicates of one another. In fact, as the world urbanizes …

This reflection examines how to characterize histories of violence. The genocide in Rwanda
has become, after years of labour, documentation, legal proceedings, testimony, and …

This essay contends that contemporary research should pay greater attention to three
fundamentally human characteristics of dehumanization. First, we argue that scholars need …

When do autocrats employ propaganda to threaten citizens with repression? Do threats of
repression condition citizen behavior? This article develops a theory of propaganda-based …

When considering strategies to address violent conflict, scholars and policymakers debate
the wisdom of recognizing versus avoiding reference to ethnic identities in government …

What strategies can be employed to conceptualize peace? In recent years, scholars have
introduced an impressive array of “peace with adjectives” in order to make sense of some of …